Presentation of the New Book by Professor Kateřina Králová in Athens

On February 6, 2025, Professor Kateřina Králová from the Institute of International Studies presented her latest book titled HOMECOMING: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-1946 in Athens. The presentation took place at the Netherlands Institute in Athens, with the participation of the Czech Ambassador Ivo Šilhavý.

The publication HOMECOMING is the result of Professor Králová's long-term research conducted in cooperation with the Jewish Museum of Greece. The book focuses on the return of Holocaust survivors from concentration camps back to Greece between 1941 and 1946, revealing not only individual stories but also broader social and political contexts of this period.

This work builds on the collective publication Returns from 2016, which Professor Králová co-edited with Hana Kubátová. This publication deals with the post-war reconstruction of Jewish communities in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

Professor Kateřina Králová has long focused her research on the modern history of Greece. Among her other significant publications are Unsettled Past: Greek-German Relations in the Shadow of Nazism (2012), which analyzes post-war Greek-German relations and the issue of coming to terms with the legacy of Nazi occupation, and the collective study Our Tears Have Dried...: Greek Refugees in Czechoslovakia (2012), which maps the fates of approximately twelve thousand Greek refugees who found refuge in Czechoslovakia at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s.

We are proud that Professor Kateřina Králová represents the Institute of International Studies on the international academic stage.

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Photo by Ivo Šilhavý